This Court Just BLOCKED the Biden Administration from Forcing Religious Employers to Provide ‘Transgender Care’

As soon as President Joe Biden gained the White House, he did all he could to roll back President Donald Trump’s protections for religious employers and health care providers.

Only the U.S. Congress has the authority to amend federal law. But presidents push through executive orders and interpret laws in a way that facilitates their own agenda.

For example, the Biden administration interprets Section 1157 of the Affordable Health Care Act (which Republicans should have repealed when they had the power) to require Christian for-profit and non-profit companies that receive federal funds to pay for and perform “gender transition” services, including surgery and counseling.

The Biden administration also claims that federal civil rights law requires Christian medical professionals to provide “transgender” services. Like the interpretation of Section 1157, the administration reinterprets the word “sex” in non-discrimination law to include sexual orientation and “gender identity.”

Again, only the U.S. Congress has the authority to amend federal law.

Naturally, Christian medical professionals want nothing to do with facilitating people’s fantasies of being the opposite sex, for example, or providing services that could render a confused and peer-pressured child sterile.

A group called the Christian Employers Alliance (CEA) in 2021 filed a lawsuit against officials in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Office of Civil Rights in HHS to block enforcement of the mandate.

A federal court granted CEA’s request and temporarily blocked enforcement pending litigation in 2022.

Alliance Defending Freedom, the group’s legal counsel, announced that a federal court on Monday has permanently blocked the Biden administration from enforcing the mandate against CEA.

The court held that HHS’s interpretation of Section 1557 violates CEA’s sincerely held religious beliefs without satisfying strict scrutiny under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act — introduced in 1993 by Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrat.

“CEA must either comply with the EEOC and HHS mandates by violating their sincerely held religious beliefs or else face harsh consequences like paying fines and facing civil liability,” the court wrote … “[But] religious freedom cannot be encumbered on a case-by-case basis.”

“We are overjoyed our members will not have to choose between the biblically based employee benefits and quality healthcare they provide, and the threat of federal enforcement and massive costs for practicing their faith,” said CEA president Shannon Royce.

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